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Ascending at the Speed of Surrender – new book

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WORLDLY AND OTHERWORLDLY

on April 19, 2023
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There is a new way of being human that is emerging on earth. Zen Benefiel is among those in the vanguard. In plain down-to-earth language he shares his story. It is a story that stretches far beyond our planetary sphere into the cosmos. His encounters with other galactic species, and his role as a liaison for our species, enable him to straddle both worldly and otherworldly dimensional realities.

With a clear sense of mission and purpose, he shares his unique experiences to open our hearts and minds to what lies beyond on truly distant shores. It takes courage to share a story that some might find difficult to comprehend or easy to discount. There is a certain humility that accompanies his accounting of events and experiences that are extraterrestrial and quite extraordinary. Still, it’s clear that he is solidly grounded here on terra firma. I applaud his efforts to work on a global peace initiative to help facilitate our shift to a new world of harmony as our species grows, matures, and expands in consciousness. Read this with an open mind and heart.

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Ascending at the Speed of Surrender is a book by Zen Benefiel that explores the idea of surrendering to the flow of life in order to reach a higher level of consciousness and spiritual evolution. The book is written from the perspective of someone who has undergone a significant transformation in their own life through the practice of surrendering and allowing themselves to be guided by the universe.

The book begins by discussing the concept of surrender and how it can be misunderstood as a form of weakness. Benefiel explains that surrender is actually a very powerful tool for transformation, as it allows us to let go of our attachments and expectations and open ourselves up to the possibilities that life has to offer. He encourages readers to let go of the need for control and instead trust in the universe to guide them towards their highest good.

The book also explores various spiritual practices and techniques that can aid in the process of surrendering, such as meditation, mindfulness, and gratitude. Benefiel emphasizes the importance of cultivating a sense of inner peace and stillness in order to connect with our higher selves and tap into the wisdom of the universe.

Throughout the book, Benefiel shares personal stories and anecdotes from his own journey of surrender and spiritual growth. He also includes exercises and prompts for readers to reflect on their own experiences and begin incorporating surrender into their daily lives.

Overall, Ascending at the Speed of Surrender offers a compelling and insightful perspective on the power of surrender as a path to spiritual evolution. Benefiel’s writing is clear and engaging, and his personal anecdotes and practical advice make the book accessible and relatable for readers at all stages of their spiritual journey. Whether you’re new to spirituality or a seasoned practitioner, this book is sure to offer valuable insights and inspiration for surrendering to the flow of life and accessing your highest potential.

Kosta Makreas – Founder, ET Let’s Talk & The People’s Disclosure Movement

Kosta Makreas – Founder, ET Let’s Talk & The People’s Disclosure Movement

interviewed by your curator, Zen Benefiel for One World in a New World

And now for something completely different… with an invitation to engage Star Family visitors further through ET Let’s Talk.

We’ve been diving deep into the lives of those in the trenches in business, organizational development and systems transformation in a variety of ways. This conversation moves to a whole different world of experience, invitation and planetary advancement.

Kosta Makreas brings a new dimension to the conversations, perhaps in some ways apocalyptic to our audience, from having a professional career in software engineering to interacting with Star People. ET Let’s Talk is a collection of people from around the world, some hosting CE-5 events, that gather for the specific purpose of human initiated contact.

As two Hoosiers reuniting, we launch into some familiar territory for us. Both of us have been active in Ufology for decades, though Kosta has taken a front seat, so to speak, with his efforts to build, organize and support a vast network of folks who want to make contact with Star People, which is their preferred nomenclature according to Kosta.

What may seem odd or peculiar or even scary to some has been lifelong experiences for others. Kosta shares how his interest began as a youth and the challenges he faced growing up in a period when it wasn’t too popular to talk about engaging aliens, let alone calling them Star People. His shares a synchronistic experience his wife had while he was away on a CE-5 week-long campout.

If you haven’t heard the term, CE-5 refers to human initiated contact with Star People. Kosta’s work began with Steven Greer and quickly evolved to developing contact groups around the world on his own. ET Let’s Talk and The People’s Disclosure Movement has been growing for several years now.

Our chat moves into discussing the People’s Disclosure Movement, taking the notion of disclosure and putting it in the hands of the people instead of governments that have not been able to announce their knowledge.

Research and study is always necessary, and Kosta mentions a study that includes over 4,000 accounts from around the world. It was performed by an organization called FREE, under the title of Beyond UFOs – The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence.

We discuss Kosta’s work with ET Let’s Talk (https://etletstalk.com) and the numbers of people involved. You might be surprise, though perhaps not.

If your curiosity is sparked, you’ll enjoy the conversation for sure. We only scratch the surface of the work and how it affects those involved. For decades it wasn’t popular to speak up or out about this topic and now folks seem to be flocking toward their own discovery and engagement.


Make sure to check out the description below the video for more information and links.

Conversation with God – Is There a ‘Perfected’ Form, Fit and Function?

Coming of Age

I’m not anyone special, though my experience is unique and weird. It started with a voice inside, advanced to trips to an orange cigar-shaped cloud a few years later and culminated in an NDE in college that presented a profound path to follow; it was like a conversation with ‘God,’ beginning with the mention of helping to facilitate a ‘new world order’ in my lifetime. Well, that’s enough to turn folks off right away.

A few years ago I had the opportunity to discuss what that [new world order] really means from my perspective and understanding. I was invited by Dr. Jeffery Mishlove, an honor and 28-year process of completion. I was hosting a new show, One World, back in 1990 and hoped someday I’d be worthy of an interview with one of the icons I hoped to emulate, Bill Moyers or Jeffrey Mishlove.

This has been a focus of my attention for over 40 years, sometimes obsessively so, attempting to correlate my experiences and others across the spectrum in order to understand my own form, fit and function in the world. I haven’t found any conversations with ‘God’ that dives as deep as the journey I’ve been on for most of my life. It’s a crazy one, though I wouldn’t change a thing.

From what I can tell, it isn’t a simulation; it is a collective experience, individuated to the extent of choice and free will, though the ‘holistic system’ (people and planet) is driven by the collective awareness, the planetary consciousness. Right now, obviously, the collective human level is low and it enjoys a fear-based reality for the most part; a dystopian reality of some sort most are afraid is coming to fruition.

Old Paradigms Need Shifting for a New Order to Emerge

Belief and projection aren’t all that different, imho, producing undesirable results around the world today. Most of it is still unconscious participation. It seems we’ve nearly lost our compassion and kindness toward each other from fear of infection, perceived differences and the narrative that’s indoctrinated a huge part of our society through the dominance of corporations and governments.

As with any statistical curve, the standard deviations are likely to apply, resulting in some with growing self-awareness that has led to awareness of a greater reality and some, not so much. Even though conversations about consciousness and non-human intelligence interacting have begun, we still tend to carry bias, imho, and it gets in the way of open communication. We’re rather attached to our own POV, not realizing it may be the same as another’s only the language is different so it is misunderstood.

Here’s an example:

Wilbert Smith’s book, The New Science, sheds some light on ‘their’ view of things. ‘Their’ meaning people from elsewhere. Apparently we do not understand ‘nothingness’ as a primary factor in the manifestation of everything, and that the materialization has to do with ‘spin’ design (an intelligence beyond our current understanding) that begins in a single point (Iikely of consciousness). In our history, some would have thought his experience was a conversation with God.

The level of interaction across inner and outer realms is astronomical when one considers the conversation with God to include creation itself; if we could only perceive it better. I shared that perspective in a recent video, from an ‘aha’ moment triggered by considering Smith’s information and how it validated some things for me. That is the notion that the point of light referenced above could also contain another aspect we missed. Through experiences of being in the ‘light’ and in the ‘void’ the sensations were nearly identical, individuated yet connected to everything somehow.

I don’t know, though I get the sense that we’re designed to become aware of it all as part of our evolution of consciousness, including the mind/brain interface, for lack of a better. We’ve got the equipment on board, in our brain/body/spirit/soul complex (from RA material model), and perhaps it is a matter of where we are looking to or from; dismantling with intellect or assembling through experience and observation, what Lex Neale’s diagram calls the Self-Aware Witness. Pretty cool stuff…

The New Science and Taking Life for a Spin around Self

Shaky Science About Nothing

There is a fascinating book, The New Science, which is the memoirs of Wilbert Smith. Smith ran Canada’s UFO investigation program, Project Magnet, in the 1950s. The material was discovered and published after his death in 1962. It’s groundbreaking still, with references to conversations with ‘people from elsewhere.’

I’m not an astrophysicist, but the idea of a ‘nothingness’ like Smith speaks of resembles the notion of the Void… from which all things come, or so we believe. This idea of nothingness is surely not understood because we really don’t have the language to describe it, yet if there are repeating patterns, fractals, in creation perhaps this is one that requires a spin around Self.

The entrance and exit within the door to the void within us, inside the tiny point of light of our soul consciousness, may reflect this same notion on a much smaller scale. We’re sorely lacking in our understanding of physics already, developing equations to account for anomalies instead of seeing the universe as anomaly-free and equating it.

We interpret the light from stars with our existing understanding, which may not be so understanding of the myriad of life forms and their location. We think we have ‘something’ and no longer question its validity, yet Smith notes that ‘people from elsewhere’ have a much different understanding of the nature of creation, and ours is in at least slight error.

Given that spin around self, and the assumption that Smith wasn’t fibbing, our questions for discovery may not have developed enough yet to fully comprehend what those structures we think are black holes really are and how they function. Seeing things at a distance makes it almost impossible to fully grok, imho. What is up close now?

Are you aware that you are aware of your awareness at any given moment? Are you able to observe yourself deeply, question your behaviors, beliefs and bewilderment of them at times? Do you have moments of reflection that seem to evade the notion of time?

There’s been more than one time I’ve been sucked into some kind of ‘tube’ that feels like a conduit of travel. It began with out-of-body experiences as a youth, then progressed to traveling elsewhere, though I never really knew where. There was a sense of movement, though.

I don’t know if it is inner space, outer space or a combination. The difference is having my eyes closed as I explored, initially believing it to be my imagination. It would seem that, all things functioning as ONE, that the combination is probably true. Experiencers (those explores of non-human contact), at some point, seem to corroborate such ‘trips,’ although descriptions are slightly different.

I agree that the form doesn’t have much to do with it, and yet consciousness needs to have some form of manifestation for interaction to take place. I was shown as a teen that our point of light (the anchor of life within us) can give access to infinite intelligence. For some time we’ve been experiencing a variety of mechanisms and styles of contact, not to mention various life forms. As this process continues, perhaps we realize we missed the idea of ‘nothing’ that is the foundation of everything.

Pick Up the Phone, Please!

We receive communication in ways we can understand it, for the most part, and it’s usually subjective and unique to the individual; a real spin around Self. I still think there are patterns we’re not seeing yet. Perhaps we weren’t ready to until recently where the spike in awareness, or the culmination of the calendars indicating an evolutionary leap is about ready to take place, has us at least looking for something more.

Perhaps there is a primer, an igniter, that unlocks our understanding and increases our ability to manifest appropriately from our nature instead of our intellect and science. The latter will catch up in time. We’ve spent most of our time in destructive testing to figure out the makings of the universe. What about constructive testing, inquiry into the natural state as it is, not what we believe it to be. Many relate that is the first step; to just BE… empty with inquiry.

I’ll use the Urantia Book as a reference that at least offers the notion of considering a plethora of types of beings and responsibilities in universe administration. The book is esoteric, compiled and presented by an intelligence or collection of intelligences in an effort to share a greater reality. Like everything ‘from elsewhere,’ out tendency is to attempt to fit the data/information into models we’re familiar.

Neppe and Close, with their Quantum Theory of Everything (Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm)  say that consciousness, time and space are tethered across 9 dimensions. Smith says the ‘people from elsewhere’ relate that the tempic, magnetic and electric fields in the Quadrature Concept span 12 dimensions, all in the spin around Self, a point of observation.

It seems consciousness is capable of experiencing all the above and the bridge between body/mind/spirit/soul is just now appearing. Or perhaps it’s been there all along and we’re just now able to conceive of it, explore it and ruminate without the fear of persecution or rejection. It’s obvious we need to evolve toward something better, something greater, for humanity.

What’s it all mean for us in a practical sense? I’m not sure, though I get the sense ‘we/they’ are trying to get us to understand that from ‘nothing’ everything emerged in perfect order; there is an order to nature and the cosmos we haven’t understood as natural order, which indicates a natural order in human experience and understanding as well.

We approach it from destructive testing, like CERN, where perhaps an approach from another direction is more appropriate; a simple change in perception that includes consciousness in the equation. I think we’re off to a good start, a silver lining in the Great Reset, perhaps a Great Weset instead, with an upwising in our wise-cracking and scoffing at things we don’t understand.

Coming out of an ‘old’ normal and transforming into a ‘new’ normal might include a deeper check-in. The obsession on self-hygiene and sequestration opened the door to explore self (our persona) and Self (our Being) in perspective. Ponder your future well in your new spin around Self. Ponder the twist on the pronoun craze going on now and consider these… I Am / We Are.

ET Hybrid – Pondering the Possibilities of Human et al

Early Beginnings of Experience

I went through a flap in the 60s, two years of what seemed like bi-weekly encounters on board an orange cigar-shaped craft at least a mile long it seemed. Was there an ET Hybrid connection? For a long time I entertained the possibility of my other-worldly origins because of an adoption and records that had been impossible to find as they had been destroyed in a flood. It stood reasonable, I suppose, especially because of the kinds of encounters I had later in life. I secretly hoped it was true, yet I wasn’t sure.

Considering one’s life to be in a different order than others is quite the journey. You have to face a lot of possibilities and yet not be attached to any of them. Why? Because you really do not know. In the process of asking questions, many answers appear as well. Some offer a kind surreal vision of integrated consciousness while others try to string stuff together that really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It all has to be ran through the sensory filters… is it true?

et hybrid - birth fatherMy wife gave me an Ancestry subscription our first Christmas and a year later my half-sister showed up, leading to my birth mother in January of 2019. I was 61. She was still living in Indiana, a dozen miles away from where I grew up. Now I have a clearer lens from which to see deeper into the mystery of the phenomena and how humans are far deeper and more powerful.

I found out I’d met my birth father many years ago in Phoenix, and at a UFO discussion group of all things. We had no idea who each other was, connected at a deep level, and he invited me up to his cabin in Prescott for a weekend to attended a discussion group that included some women who claimed to have hybrid children somewhere, from earlier abductions, implantations and early removal of embryos which indicated an ET Hybrid reality.

Pondering the Profound

Now knowing how powerful our minds can be in creating internal environments that seem absolutely real, they may not be so. Dr. Burkes speaks often about the holographic experience, too. In our current state, with all the inner symbols and representations of aspects of the psyche or other bodies from different planes of consciousness, it seems a desire or regret can produce elaborate internal experiences in the right altered state.

et hybrid Then I have to think about a guy I met 30 years ago when I was hosting a television show. I was well-known in the metaphysical/ufo community at the time, though my guests spanned societal positions and roles. Following up on a strong suggestion from a mentor, I saw almond-shaped eyes on the other side of his physical eyes about 30 seconds into our conversations. Was I staring into the eyes of an ET Hybrid? I didn’t know whether some entity was peering through or it was an aspect of him that no one seemed to know, such as actually being a hybrid. He seemed absolutely human, and a bit over-confident of himself.

We’d locked eyes and neither one of us blinked for long periods of time. I didn’t say a word then, didn’t even have any micro-expressions that I was aware of, which he told me later was surprising. A week or so later we had a follow up meeting and I asked him about his eyes. He said I was the first one to ever ask, and then shared a story about the abduction of his mother. I have to say over the 30+ years I’ve visited, he’s seemed like you and me, sequestering up on the Navajo reservation for most of that time.

Spooky Cool Validations Perhaps

One of the stories he shared some years later, after receiving a call from Hawaii asking if he could crash at my place to heal. I had no idea what he really meant, and said yes anyway. He’d had an interesting surgery the left him with staples down his chest that he showed me upon arrival. He shared that he’d worked for our government as an assassin for the last decade, one of three that was still alive. A highly trained ET Hybrid put to work? I suppose someone has to take out the trash, horrible as it is.

et hybridHe was mortally wounded and the only survivor from a recent mission. The surgery was a result, literally brining him back to life. He had a wallet-sized bulge in his abdomen now, a defibrillator attached to his heart. It was unique to say the least. He was now officially out of the business and Initially I was appalled, then I had to think a bit deeper. He’d shown no signs of being anything but a caring, loving man even with his over-confident attitude. His unit had been tasked with taking out guys that didn’t want to play well with others.

I’d be a fool if I didn’t question the motivations of the various races and civilizations visiting Earth now and in our history. He didn’t want to share his knowledge of being a hybrid, but he did share that he’d had a few onboard experiences, completely conscious and volitional. The first just outside Kansas City where he’d felt compelled to leave his job as a bouncer in the middle of his shift and drive out into the country.

ET Hybrid Reconciliation and Reporting

Stuff like that you can’t really explain why you get the feeling, it’s just overwhelming and yet he also had the ability to follow his inner prompts. When he arrived at a certain location, he pulled off the road and literally ran up a hill as fast as he could. At the top he could see a saucer-shaped craft on the ground not 50 yards away and continued to run down toward it. He said about half-way down he got hit with this green light that made his knees buckle for a moment. He explained it was a bio-hazard kind of thing so that he didn’t contaminate their environment.

Once on the ship they sped off and he saw the Earth disappear below him through the bottom of the ship, transparent on command and yet indestructible. Their journey took him to a world that was like Earth, yet the society was completely free of war and any deplorable situations we might have on Earth. He was hugged at one point and in an instant he felt he merged with the other and felt a sense of love beyond anything he’d dreamed possible. Is this also a potential ET Hybrid experience or are humans able to have it, too?

It was an open and loving civilization, polygamous without any emotional baggage whatsoever, or so it seemed to him. He stated in our interview that he could love deeply, but it was no match for what he experienced from these beings. Oh, they looked human as well. I think he said they were Pleiadeans, but didn’t know from which planet in their system. We don’t seem ready for that kind of depth in relationships outside our immediate family.

Now you’re in for a treat, as the interview was one I was able to save from the annals of the Dimension Cable system. What you’ll find is a similar theme consistent with many of the ‘experiencers’ who have shared their stories over the last few decades. Something to ponder, perhaps.